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When developing a Web application, it's standard practice to create a database structure on which server-side code is placed for the logic and UI layers. To connect to the database, the server-side code needs to do some basic creating, updating, deleting, and — most importantly — reading of records.

SPARQL — Simple Protocol and RDF Query Language

Why move from SQL to SPARQL? There are many reasons why you would want to move from SQL to SPARQL. The details extend beyond the scope of this article, but you could be motivated by the following points: You want a more distributed data solution. You want to expose your data on the Web for people to use and link to. You may find Node-Arc-Node relationships (triple) easier to understand than relational database models. You may want to understand your data in a pure object-oriented fashion to work with an OOP paradigm (PHP V5 and later supports OOP). You want to build generic agents that can connect to data sources on the Web.

I want to present to you the role I see myself playing in the symfony community

I would like to form a group of people who are interested in helping out.

I have created a new mailinglist just for this purpose: symfony-community.

elf in the community

PHP is one of the world’s largest open source projects.

people who write open source software generally aren’t paid to do it.